My horses and my students has been the ones shaping the most of my education. I love learning and exploring new ideas and concepts. My roots are however firmly placed in the classical dressage world and most of my time has so far been about translating this work with my new tools.

I believe we need new different skills to shape our horses with positive reinforcement techniques. I am looking for an active learner working with low frustration and high independence. A learner who is as invested as you in their training and this is what I try to teach.

Where I teach:

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About Angelica

Angelica Hesselius is an internationally renown reward based horse trainer with a background as an instructor in classical dressage and academic art of riding. She specializes in positive reinforcement training for balanced movement in groundwork and riding. Developing proprioception, movement and communication through systematic reward-based strategies. She trains horses, teaches students and coaches colleagues all over the world.

She has developed new strategies for creating high precision movements and low frustration from the get-go when working with food reinforcers. Passive and active pauses, independent eating and continuous feeding techniques are some of her signature strategies.

Angelica is a part of the Swedish instructor collaboration OHR+ and been been teaching dressage since 2010 and with an R+ approach since 2016. It is her passion to guide horses and riders towards higher balance. To find both connection and collection together with a horse that loves to train as much as you do.

Her current projects include Exploring Nuances together with Eva Bertilsson, with lectures and courses for horse trainers and behavior geeks curious to explore and expand their training systems.

In 2022 The Reward Based Horse Academy will see the light of day! A collaboration with dutch horse trainer Do Groen where the focus will be on creating a solid foundation to succeed with your reward based training, for horses and humans.

Canis (Clicker Instructor), 2020-2021 Joined this education as an AUDITOR

Canis (Clicker Instructor), 2019-2020 Joined this education as an AUDITOR

-Connection Training Coach, 2018

-Squiretest, Member 199 of the Knighthood of Academic Art of Riding, 2018

-Connection Training, Qualifing Instructor Program
2017-2018

-International Educational Program, Hanna Engström, Ekeskogs Riding Academy
2014-2016

Groundworktest, Academic Art of Riding
2016

Ethology 15 hp, Linneuniversitetet, Uppsala Universitet
2016

Rewardbased educational-year, online education Carolina Thyselius-Fransson
2015-2016

Rewardbased Horsetraining Training (training group) Carolina Thyselius-Fransson
2013- 2018

Longreining for horsetrainers